Improvement in candlesticks



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Candlesticks.

No` 145,502. PatentedDec.16,1873.`

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VILLIAM H. H. HINDS, OF AYER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANDLESTICKS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No.ll15,502, dated December16, 1873; application iled August 26, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWM. H. H. HINDs, of Ayer, in the county of Middlesexand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements inAdjustable Candlesticks, of which the following is a specification:

Wy improvements consist, in the rst part, in the mode of constructionand operation of certain blades at the top of the eandlestiek forcontrolling the flame. In a former patent, No. 50,7 0S, the blades arecalled regulators,77 and acted on a pivot or end of a rod, crossing eachother,andwere used to increase or lessen the flame. In an improvement onthe same, patent No. 82,000, the blades were used for snuiiers, and wereattached to rods on opposite sides ot' the top of the candlestick, andoperated by a collar, into which they were madeto pass, and in that caseboth blades were made to turn in one direction.

1n my present improvement the blades a a are designed to be used forextinguishers, a-nd are attached to separate rods b b on one side of thesleeve c, or upper part of the candlestick, which rods pass down in acase,cl,or

, otherwise, below the dripping-cup e, where they are bent at a rightangle, forming arms j' f, by which they may be operated by the handwithout disturbing the chimney or globe resting on the dripping-cup. Theblades are for extinguishing the light of a candle, and at the same timepreserving the charred part of Wick, so that it may be readily re-lit,which can only be done by the blades closing tightly about the wick atthe point where the flame is nearest to the candle, and thus preventingthe melted tallow from flowing up above the blades. This cannot be donewith one blade, and neither of the two is designed to close over thewick, but the two together are closed again st it. This fixture isfurther adapted, from the fact that in many candles the wick is not inthe center, and the blades will meet at that point where the wick is 5hence the necessity of having two blades, and of having them operatedindependently, but together, pressing against the wick and leaving theend above to be relit.

The second part of my invention provement consists in the mode ofattaching the sleeve c or upper part of the Candlestick to the base h,which is by means of a ridge, e', projected from one side of the base,which has notches n at intervals to suit. The sleeve has a groove, lr,to slip over the ridge, and is held at any altitude by the spring I,which passes round the sleeve, or part of the way round, and, riveted toit at m, drops into one of the notches and holds it Xed to the base. Byraising the end of the spring out of the notch, the sleeve is raised orlowered, and

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